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• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  for MIT students that I'm aware of are Puerto Rico, Aruba, Mexico, the ... time, and a refreshing change from the clubs I'm used to, which are lame ... my ears could handle it, I saw a bunch of people buy earplugs so they

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  course has a reputation for being one of the most impactful courses you can ... PSETs have a definite start and end, it's hard for me to gauge how much I ... completely blanks. Unless I'm actively working on an assignment for that course

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  castle I plan on expanding. I want to buy her a crown. Making Time for ... got back from a year on leave from MIT. I live right near work, and a ... Place I have a job! At Formlabs! I play with liquid photopolymers for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  ’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force.” “Just trust me. It’s a lot much faster with your thumb. Just always keep ... 's note: This post was adapted off of a Vignette I wrote for CMS.587

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  when I said I went to Penn State for a year. Now there's a sudden ... .     Voices from the community: I’m not a child abuse survivor ... trust in my community over the last couple of weeks, and this is a place I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  voucher! i can get 2.5 entire granola bars from the airport. definitely ... the help desk, so hopefully they can get me a sooner flight so i don ... because i didn’t have a eu adapter for my computer charger, and my laptop

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  . I had the control over where I ultimately enrolled. I hope you can ... and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of ... to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  cheerleading and how has it helped/hurt your grades, etc? [I'm uh, asking for a ... probably can't do ten. I personally do one activity plus a UROP, partially ... I'm home for the evening. Cheerleading is a time commitment of about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  them as you can! :3 WEATHER: I’m not from a particularly warm place, but I’m from a dry place, and good lord, save yourself and either buy or ... ) "I’m not from a particularly warm place, but I’m from a dry place, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  Friday frenzy and buying new stuff, I decided to take a different approach ... volunteers who helped make the feast possible! ^I can't find my photos from ... memories and stories, the same way that a certain song can conjure up

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider ... tasks were previously performed manually. What can be done with a ticket booth now that people buy from machines? Who is taking the metro, what

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  learning lesson for me, but I think I learned a lot and it's something I ... hobbies this semester, but found that I wasn't able to do that for a variety ... being there for me during the entire shitshow. I leaned a lot into coping

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  motivation, a promise that i won't let them down. i'm thankful for my friends ... , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first ... llamas and alpacas. the pc running out of a shoebox built solely for vr

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  , the reason I can't keep friends for longer than a couple of years. Maybe ... stayed here for a long, long time. I thought I could drop the things that ... and embrace the life I had carefully crafted at MIT. A life where I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  here." And I stood there for a minute, laughing to myself a little ... old self? where i've been For the past five years, I've made it my New ... where i am Since the beginning of the fall semester of my senior

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  can't very well talk about the ENTIRE INTERNET because you'd be here for the rest of your life, which for a lot of people, is perfectly ... an enigma wrapped in a riddle. For one, it's housed in multiple

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  few days I've been busy designing a new television commercial for ... on Amazon you can even get a free cell phone when you sign up for a ... cell phone! You see a shot over from his shoulder where he's clearly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  will inevitably follow, from denial - searching for a clipboard log - to ... occurrence (where do these occurrences come from? I'm the most ridiculous ... . If you can find someone like that for you, you're gold. 3) A good way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  about it. I also did good amount of UI/UX and product design for an intern ... Times was not at all what I expected, but everything I could've hoped for ... , a great internship that was far from corporate, as these non

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  have been cooking for a long time with food I buy from grocery stores, but I haven't thought about where that food comes from. This semester I ... ginger as you feel you can handle! Mix in a little cayenne pepper for an

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009